Preserving and Celebrating
Our United Methodist Heritage in Central and Northeast Pennsylvania

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Central Pennsylvania Evangelical
Pastors Click on the first letter of the surname to enter the file of all
the pastors for that letter. The instructions file gives information
about this project, the dates at which various conference boundary changes
occurred, and detailed bibliographic references.

Note:J.H. Maice is the
brother of George L. Maice and the father of Hattie
Dora Maice Snyder, wife of Samuel A. Snyder.The
Blind Man, the autobiography of J.H. Maice, was
published by the United Evangelical Publishing House in 1904.

MALLORY,
L.S.

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Obit:

Des Moines Conference

1920transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference, page 56

Note: L.S.
Mallory was received as a “local preacher on trial.”He apparently was never listed or appointed
as a local pastor.In 1925 he appears to
be living in Altoona and supplying Evangelical pulpits as a guest preacher,
possibly as a preacher in the Church of God.The first name may be Leonard.He
appears to have worked in “the shops” and then left to do home missionary work
for the United Evangelical Church in Winterset IA.

Note:
The 1884 journal, page 9, reports the following: “Motoi Matsuda, a native
Japanese preacher engaged in our Missionary work in Japan, having during the
year taken a secular position in the pay of the Japanese Government, and having
surrendered his license, it was resolved that his name be stricken from the
rolls of this Conference to which he belonged.”

Note:
Charles W. McCulloh Jr is the son of Charles W. McCullohSr and the grandson of
Rev. William McCulloh of the Brethren in Christ
Church.He is also the father of
Gwendolyn McCulloh Steiner, wife of Roger Steiner of
the Lutheran Church.

1941-58Fox Hollow Brethren in Christ in
Montoursville PA
1958-59Cross Roads Brethren in
Christ in Mt. Joy PA
1959“transfer” to the
Central Pennsylvania Conference of the EUB Church

1959-63Keystone-Perry Charge
1963-68Beavertown

1968-71Pennsdale

1971-78Renova

1978retired

1978-88Waterville

Note:
Charles W. McCullohSr is the
son of Rev. William McCulloh of the Brethren in
Christ Church and the father of Charles W. McCulloh
Jr.

McCURDY, S.O.

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1881license

1884ordained [J.O. McCurdy]

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Note: An
S.O. McCurdy was granted credentials in the East Pennsylvania Conference in
1887.

McGAW, J.M.

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1860license
1862ordained deacon
ordained elder

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1860-61Buffalo
1861-62Perry
1862-63Leesburg
1863-64Liverpoollocated and later
withdrew from the Church

Note:
This name is also given as J.W. McGAW.

McKESSON, JOHN M.

Born:
York County PAmarried:
Nancy A. _____
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1849license
1851ordained deacon
ordained elder

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Obit:

1849-50Columbia
1850-51Preston circuit
1851-53?

1853transfer to Pittsburgh
Conference

1853-54English missionary to the West

Note:J. M. McKesson was appointed in 1853 to establish an English work in the West.June 28 he arrived in McDonough County IL and began his labors.He laid the foundations for the English work in western Illinois and eastern Iowa.Owing to ill health he did not continue the second year, and the Illinois Conference was asked to take charge of the work, owing to a scarcity of preachers in the Pittsburg Conference.

James M. McKesson became a medical doctor and about 1862 was one of the
founding pioneers of Lancaster [now Lincoln] Nebraska and of a Methodist school
there.He is a brother of pioneer
Evangelical minister Samuel W. McKesson (also born in York County PA) of Kansas
and Nebraska.Samuel’s son J.F.C.
McKesson was a prominent attorney and statesman who wrote on the history of
Lincoln and Nebraska.

Note:
This surname is also given as McLAIN, McLEAN and McLEHN.Noah McLane is a brother to Moses McLane and
Simon McLane.He died of pneumonia,
caught while circuit-riding when his horse fell through the ice.The conference archives contain a McLane
family biographical file.

Note:
Glen A. Miller is the son of Paul M. Miller.Glen A. Miller was the founding pastor of Calvary Bible Church in
Greencastle on 4/10/1983 and served as senior pastor of that congregation until
his death.

Note:According to the 1828-1973 roster Blake’s
1973 history of United Methodism in Wisconsin, page 319, there is no record of
J.C. Miller in Wisconsin.

MILLER,
J.G.

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license
ordained deacon
ordained elder

Interment:
Obit:

1851-52Uniontransfer to
Pittsburgh Conference

MILLER,
J.L.

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1887ordained elder

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1885received from the United
Brethren Church as a local deacon, page 22
1885-88Bendersville
circuit
1888-89Center Hall circuit
1889-91Hagerstown circuit
1891deposed from the
ministry and expelled from the Church, pages 17 & 22

Note:
Joseph F. Morris was supposedly credentialed in the Methodist Episcopal
Church.The 1911-15 service at Baltimore
Bethany is stated in his obituary, but this church is unknown.He first appears, without explanation, in the
Central Pennsylvania Conference journals in 1915.His obituary names him JOSEPH H. MORRIS.

Note:
An obituary for Thomas M. Morris also appears in the 6/25/1890 edition of The Evangelical, page 207.Some sources give his birthplace as Reading
PA.The Morris family appears to have
roots in Loganton PA.

Note:
A picture and biographical sketch of Samuel M. Mountz
appear in the published history of the Trinity Lutheran Church of New Holland,
page 94, and in the 1925 History of the West Pennsylvania Synod, page 287. A
picture also appears in the 1917 History of the Susquehanna Synod, page 20.

MOWRER,
B.K.

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?license,East Pennsylvania Conference
1921 granted deacon credentials

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1893-95White Haven

1895-11living in Columbia as a local deacon

1911transfer to Central Pennsylvania
Conference as a local deacon, page 24

Note: John Sebastian Musser gave the
land for the historic Paradise [a.k.a. Musser’s] Evangelical Association church
near Millheim.His mother was the daughter of Lutheran pastor Ludwig A. Ilgen (1759-1823).